* Alcoholic Flavouring carrier (trace)
Products which use a carrier are permissable. Alcohol used as carriers are common food industry techniques and are permissible due to necessity on condition that they do not intoxicate i.e. negligible (trace) amounts of alcohol are present.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Procter & Gamble has decided recently to eliminate animal derived ingredients from all their Crest toothpastes both in USA and Canada. This is good news but we have to be very careful because Crest toothpastes with animal derived ingredients are still available in the markets. They are not giving any date when all the stock of animal derived ingredients Crest toothpaste will be sold out. So please buy only the following four flavors of Crest toothpastes until for next 6 months or a year.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Please kindly note that the following butcher outlets/ meat stores have fraudulently advertised their store and products as HMA certified. (amongst others the false advertising has appeared in Ummah Times)

Please note that these stores and all its products are NOT HMA CERTIFIED.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Brother Hadi Mohammed from Canada has provided the follwing e-mail from Pepsi Canada, there is exception for Vanilla Pepsi if it contains Vanilla Extract then it will not be Halal:

Hi Hadi:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us at PepsiCo Canada regarding our beverages. We certainly appreciate the opportunity to clarify the situation.

Although our exact formulations are proprietary, please be assured that analysis of our products will confirm that they are non-alcoholic. In fact, we do not add ethanol to any of our products and our products do not ferment to produce ethanol. You can be certain that all our products throughout the world are non-alcoholic and fully comply with local regulations.

Once again, many thanks for your interest in our company. We hope this information is helpful to you.
Sincerely,

Note: Ruling on Alcoholic is different from different scholars, best practice is ofcourse Taqwa or caution, but otherwise the ruling regarding the permissibility of the Non khamr "alcohols" to be used as flavourings / carriers can be found here: Alocohol Ruling, Question remains regardless of the ruling that whether the ehtanol they used is source from Khamr or Non Khamr...

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Just received a response from Arizona drinks Company (www.drinkarizona.com/)
stating that NONE of their products contains any alcohol or animal ingredients...

There still remains a chance that for their flavouring the carrier is some sort of alcohol but the company did not clearly respond to that question. Their associate simply replied there is no alcohol in any of their products..

Readers are requested to confirm this for themselves. You can email them at Info@drinkarizona.com

Here is the email response i received from them...:

DrinkArizona

Thank you for your email. There is no alcohol or animal ingredients in any of our products. The U inside of the circle means the product is kosher certified.

Additive and 'E' numbers in foodFood additives are added to food to make it safer, keep it longer, stop the growth of bacteria, mould, and stop food going stale. They also aid processing as emulsifiers, raising agents, preservatives and improve food in terms of colour, taste, texture and nutritional value.

Additives increase the variety of food available to consumers keeping prices down, allowing safe delivery of food to urban populated areas and create alternatives to traditional food like meat substitutes for meat, low fat products for butter and yoghurt and sugar free drinks for diabetics.

The use of additives is strictly controlled by law. They may not be used in food unless they are on approved Government supervised list, proving their safe and effective usage. Once approved by the EC it is then given an 'E' number and is constantly monitored by local Government and the EEC.